yeah, I agree with you. I don't understand what makes these people think the way they think...maybe it's because they aren't envolved in it (they're not soldiers or anything) but they feel like they HAVE to be somehow! I'm not a soldier, but I do have two old high school buddies, another friend, and my brother-in-law who have all spent time in Iraq, and they all will tell you the same story, the one you stated. Why doesn't the news report about the schools that were shut down and used as weapon depots under Saddam being reopened? Why don't they talk about the farm lands that are lush again? (Saddam built dams to control the flow of water to the strong agriculture areas of Iraq, and literally cut off the water causing people, crops, and farm animals to die of thirst). And they all say they get the same response from the Iraqis when a convoy passes by...I'm sure you know what I mean.

The media is definitely NOT controlled by the government! They are controlled by their own over ambitious, power/attention hungry egos who will stop at nothing to get the highest ratings...big difference there!

I don't agree with everything Bush has done, but you really think he's planning on world domination!? And I watched some of those videos that they claimed showed proof, and I tell you, there wasn't anything at all that was remotely proof! I think many of these people do it for the same reason as the media...to get shock value thus all the attention upon them.
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-David



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1.0 ball python (Pandora - don't ask)

1.0 argentine boa (Prometheus)

0.1 hogg island boa (Andromeda)

0.0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (Inara)

1.0 kenyan sand boa (Diablo)

1.0 normal corn snake(Cypress)

0.1 amel. corn snake (Morgan LaFay) RIP

0.0.2 baby corns (Romulus and Remus)

- 1 normal, 1 ghost

0.0.1 banded cali. kingsnake (Cain)

1.0 tangerine honduran milksnake (Narcissus)

0.0.1 snow corn snake (Valkyrie)

1.0 amazon tree boa (Pegasus)

1.0 colombian boa (Athena, for now)

0.1 albino san diego gopher snake (maybe Octavian)

0.0.1 sandfish skink (Slick)

0.0.1 fire skink (Phoenix)

1.0 dog (Luke)



the wife's pets:

1.0 bearded dragon (Leonidas)

1.1 ferrets (Ares, Enyo)

1.2 cats (Galahad, Ripley and Sassy)

0.1 Boxer (Zoe)

2.0 rats



NEWEST ADDITIONS:

1.0 adult Dumeril's boa (maybe Hannibal)

0.0.1 baby yellow amazon tree boa (affectionately called

Snuggles)

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